Fletcher LAW and GRACE Ministries exists to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ through the preaching,teaching and writing ministry of Fletcher Law. Faith is the theme. We also just have some fun talking SEC football and other stuff. Fletcher is from Gainesville,GA., BS Ed.Ole Miss, MEd. North Georgia College and State University, M.Div Emory-Candler School of Theology, D.Min Samford-Beeson Divinity School.

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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Good News at Noon-979 Davis Street--(send donations to PO Box 1577) Gainesville,GA 30503
We are a homeless and community ministry in Gainesville, GA located between the Melrose government housing and the chicken plants in chicken city! To serve contact pastor Fletcher Law fletcherlawgnn@gmail.com

Little Caesars Love rolled into Good News on March 4th 2015 for lunch

Come work with our volunteers like this crazy ladies group called Monica's Mafia.

Little Caesars sent their kitchen and crew from the corporate office in from Detroit, MI!

We serve lunch & evening meals, provide a homeless shelter & distribute clothes, work with youth for one reason. What Is it? To show Jesus, #LiftJesusUp!, to this lost and hurting world.

Here is our Pastor Dr. Fletcher Law with our founder and Bible Teacher Mr. Beckstein or "Mr. B."
He founded Good News at Noon over 25 years ago with his late wife Margie.

Come meet Thomas Ramirwz our homeless shelter director.

Come shake hands with Mr. B before lunch at our shelter. He will bless you!

Come here Frank Moore Jr. sing at lunch. He is Mr. B's son. See the resemblance.

Come meet Hannah Parker our Director of Youth and Children. She can put you to work.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

As many who study preaching know,
the renowned preacher and former Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and
New Testament Emeritus for the Candler School of Theology at Emory University,
Fred Craddock, has passed away. He modeled a new wave of narrative preaching that
was accepted and copied by many.

While taking a graduate class at another seminary in a preaching class
I did a project about him using video clips.
His sermons had Baptist, Church of God and Bible Church ministers responding possitivly
and with explosive laughter. They focused in while Fred Craddock on DVD told many of his memorable stories that wove Scripture into his experience.

Dr. Craddock’s passing had me
recalling my days at Candler. Why? I
never got to take any of his classes as he retired from Emory right before I
attended there. Many of his students gleefully
told me of the great times and memories they had as he impacted their preaching
education.

I love preaching and preachers that
have a passion that brings their gifts into service to present the gospel to the lost.

1
Corinthians 1:18-31

“18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent.”

Unfortunately a few preachers flat out try to copy sermons, preaching styles, and stories as their own. Nobodies unique gifts can be fully copied. I once heard in preacher of a prominent mega-church use Craddock’s “once a
church now BBQ restaurant” illustration. The preacher changed to his own personal story and experience. Ouch. Craddock published his stories.

It also reminded me when a heralded
Candler professor shared with a class about a student of hers who told about a
discussion of alcohol in the church she ministered. Our teacher relayed that her former student said to the congregation in a discussion after a sermon (supposedly)
“Jesus drank wine.” A little old church
lady piped in “I would have thought a lot more of him if he didn’t.” In class the professor had gotten misty eyed
about this story's conclusion. She thought it was tragic when in fact the story in its original was one of great humor.

I did not have the heart to tell my professor
that it was amazing Jerry Clower, the famous Southern humorist, who told a similar
story that was a punch line in his book

‘Life Everlaughter: The Heart and
Humor of Jerry Clower’.

In my graduate preaching class, where as I student a presented the Craddock DVDs, my fellow students of preaching loved what we heard in Craddock's sermons. In class it was noted that his
many imitators did not seem to really get it or that we all have a style of their own. Our class professor said some take it as
far as having a “hermeneutic of suspicion” when approaching the Biblical
text. Now a continual stream of sarcasm is in some preachers weekly message. That means snarkiness, which is non-synonymous with the gospel. Copying Craddock in all detail makes
no more sense than preachers who used to wear Hawaiian shirts because Rick Warren used to. Many Hawaiian shirt wearing preachers in rural
North Georgia did not seem to grasp that they preached in a different
environment than under evangelized southern California. We have the same gospel to resent with the gifts of many different preachers.

Jude 1: 3 tells us “…
that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto
the saints.”

My regret is that I never had Fred Craddock as my preaching teacher. At Candler I felt
at times like I was at Graceland and told “Elvis has left the building” for good. Instead at Candler the implied sentiment was “Craddock has left the building” "He was great." Like the old Jimmy Buffett live album title "You Should Have Been There."

I value great teachers. We need to imitate one in preaching essence. Our Savior put up the carpentry tools early. He was the greatest preacher.

In His first sermon in Mark 1:15 He said “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom
of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

About Me

I have a great family of three and we live in Gainesville,GA. I am the Pastor of Good News at Noon which is a community ministry and homeless shelter for what the world calls the least and the lost. My philosophy of ministry is from our founder Mr. Gene Beckstein- "Lift Jesus Up". My first book is out "Receiving Grace In The Grove". I have served as an adjunct professor for a Christian school Point University. I teach 7th grade Social Studies and coach 8th grade football for a great community - the Hilliard A. Wilbanks Patriots in Demorest,GA.